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Paul Bartel

Highest Rated: 100% Heart Like a Wheel (1983)

Lowest Rated: Cannonball (1976)

Birthday: Aug 6, 1938

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA

One of the few openly gay directors in Hollywood, Paul Bartel is a visual satirist who has directed a range of bawdy, violent, sophisticated and nearly always controversial films. His work is distinguished primarily by its subject matter rather than by its style.

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Highest rated movies

100% 82% Heart Like a Wheel
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92% 72% Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird
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87% 96% The Usual Suspects
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86% 71% Eating Raoul
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82% 63% Death Race 2000
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81% 75% Rock 'n' Roll High School
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78% 63% Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
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78% 62% Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
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72% 53% Piranha
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67% 77% Basquiat
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Paul Bartel

Paul Bartel EATING RAOUL, Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, 1982, TM & Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. EATING RAOUL, Paul Bartel, 1982, TM & Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BEVERLY HILLS, from left: Paul Bartel, Ametia Walker, 1989, © Cinecom Pictures EATING RAOUL, from left: Paul Bartel, Robert Beltran, Mary Woronov, 1982, TM & Copyright © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. CANNONBALL, Martin Scorsese, Paul Bartel, Sylvester Stallone, 1976 EATING RAOUL, Mary Woronov (seated), Paul Bartel (kneeling), 1982, TM & Copyright © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. EATING RAOUL, Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, 1982, TM & Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. NOT FOR PUBLICATION, David Naughton, director Paul Bartel, Nancy Allen on set, 1984, (c) Samuel Goldwyn EATING RAOUL, Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, 1982, TM & Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dinner and a Movie Unknown (Character) - 2001
59% 46% Hamlet Osric (Character) $1.6M 2000
50% 75% Dreamers Larry (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 25% The Premonition Proprietor (Character) - 1999
78% 63% Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss Rex Webster (Character) $2.0M 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Devil's Child Dr. Zimmerman (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Not Like Us Mortician (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 42% Lewis & Clark & George Cop (Character) - 1996
54% 39% John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. Congressman (Character) $25.5M 1996
67% 77% Basquiat Henry Geldzahler (Character) $25.4K 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Red Ribbon Blues Fred the Pharmacist (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 33% Number One Fan Director (Character) - 1995
17% 50% The Jerky Boys Host at Tut's (Character) $7.6M 1995
No Score Yet 38% The Death Artist Older Man (Character) - 1995
87% 96% The Usual Suspects Smuggler (Character) $22.6M 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Wacky Adventures of Dr. Boris and Nurse Shirley Dr. Boris (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love and Happiness Sulley (Character) - 1995
33% 46% Posse Mayor Bigwood (Character) $16.4M 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Acting on Impulse Bruno (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shelf Life Various Apparitions (Character),
Director 		- 1993
No Score Yet 40% Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel The Manager (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet 0% Evil Lives Boring Professor (Character) - 1992
29% 51% The Pope Must Diet Monsignor Fitchie (Character) $201.1K 1991
No Score Yet 50% Far Out Man Weebee Cool (Character) $71.4K 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective Larry Badger (Character) - 1990
60% 28% Out of the Dark Clerk (Character),
Executive Producer 		$419.4K 1989
78% 62% Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills Dr. Mo Van De Kamp (Character),
Director 		$1.9M 1989
No Score Yet 38% Mortuary Academy Paul Truscott (Character) - 1988
65% 58% Amazon Women on the Moon Doctor (Character) $388.2K 1987
No Score Yet 53% The Longshot Director $603.1K 1986
No Score Yet 37% Killer Party Professor Zito (Character) $457.0K 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fool's Night Professor Zito (Character) - 1986
55% 39% Chopping Mall Paul Bland (Character) - 1986
92% 72% Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird Grouch Cook (Voice) - 1985
40% 49% Into the Night Beverly Wilshire Hotel Doorman (Character) - 1985
25% 79% Lust in the Dust Director - 1985
37% 49% National Lampoon's European Vacation Mr. Froeger (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 40% Not for Publication TV Director (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1984
100% 82% Heart Like a Wheel Chef Paul (Character) - 1983
86% 71% Eating Raoul Paul Bland (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1982
0% 25% Heartbeeps Party Guest (Character) - 1981
81% 75% Rock 'n' Roll High School Mr. McGree (Character) - 1979
72% 53% Piranha Dumont (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Baring It All Dr. Emil Krankheit (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet 34% Cannonball Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1976
82% 63% Death Race 2000 Director - 1975
No Score Yet 57% Private Parts Director - 1972

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 71% Das Boot Anatole (Character) 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rude Awakening Unknown (Character) 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Chicago Hope Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cybill Unknown (Guest Star) 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Clueless Unknown (Guest Star) 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Comic Strip Presents Unknown (Character),
Director,
Writer 		1993
No Score Yet 78% Amazing Stories Unknown (Character),
Director,
Writer 		1986-1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alfred Hitchcock Presents Unknown (Character) 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fame Unknown (Guest Star) 1986